Taking into account recent developments in historical and
ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry
and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of The Politics of
Nature enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's acclaimed study of
Romanticism. Hitherto marginal figures are restored to prominence,
and there is new material on William Wordsworth's radical years.
The book includes the full text of John Thelwall's Essay on Animal
Vitality with commentary, exploring how ideas of nature, revolution
and radical science entwined.